“The truth is that he wanted to draw a little comfort from gazing at the stars. There were still one or two up there, at the zenith. As always, seeing them revived him; they were distant, they were omnipotent and at the same time they were docile to his calculations; just the contrary to humans, always too near, so weak and yet so quarrelsome.” HumansStarsQuarrelsome Book:The Leopard Source: The Leopard
“All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.” ThinkingHumansLittlesTwoDifferentWholeEarthLastsCoursesCenturyGoes OnLionsSheepSaltLeopardsJackalsHyenasSalt Of The Earth Book:The Leopard: Revised and with new material Source: The Leopard: Revised and with new material
